This was a fun episode. 1904 was perhaps the weirdest Olympics ever, and the marathon was insane. Hitchhikers, poison, starvation diets, runners carried over the line...... and then there is Felix Carvajal, dead man running. Matt did a deep dive on perhaps the strangest story of all the marathon runners.

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